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Russ Callaghan Grooms has always loved guitars. In fact, he’s been officially diagnosed with G.A.S (Guitar Acquisition Syndrome) which isn’t helped by looking after the UK side of a large guitar company. This generally involves having lots of guitars in the house, travelling around the UK visiting guitar shops, talking to guitars players about guitars, […]

BOLD AS, the brass music education programme that Laura Callaghan Grooms manages on behalf of Deal Festival is still going strong! The programme recently got an excellent write up from the 4 bars rest website. Here’s an excerpt of the article… The award winning Deal Festival this year celebrates 35 years of bringing music and […]

Laura Callaghan Grooms is proud to be Senior Producer for Our Future City… she gets to be involved in some of the most special and most important cultural & artistic work going on for children and young people in Brighton… Laura was project manager and producer for the Joint Practice Development Day in January 2017, […]

Rhythmix‘s Wishing Well programme brings live, interactive music making to the bedside of people with dementia. Russ Callaghan-Grooms from Hand on Heart Arts is a music leader on this very important programme. Watch this lovely film below… Find out more at wishingwellmusic.org.uk DONATE: justgiving.com/Rhythmix FOLLOW: twitter.com/RhythmixMusic LIKE: www.facebook.com/RhythmixMusicCharity/

After last May’s performance at the Royal Albert Hall, the groundbreaking UP! Orchestra is returning this year for another almighty performance. Out of 100 submissions, Surrey Music Hub’s Orchestra of Unlimited Potential (UP! Orchestra) has been invited to perform on the 27th July for the 32nd World Conference of the International Society for Music Education […]

Hand on Heart Arts have been working hard with Brighton and Hove’s Music Education Hub SoundCity, to project and event manage their annual celebration SoundCity4! SoundCity4 will be happening next Saturday, 12 March 2016 at Corn Exchange, Brighton. Doors at 7.00pm – 9.30pm finish. SoundCity4 will be an exciting event, showcasing the brilliant young talent […]